​Laura Gervais is a behavioural and evolutionary biologist at CEFE. She is mainly interested in the ability of wild populations to adapt to their environment. She uses integrative approaches combining quantitative genetics and populations genomics to study mechanisms underlying variations in life-history, behavioural, physiological and morphological traits.
laura.gervais[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Paul Cuchot: is a PhD student at CEFE (supervised by Céline Teplitsky, CEFE, and Pierre-Yves Henry, MNHN), studying plasticity of reproduction in wild bird populations. Through his research, Paul is analysing how wild birds adapt their reproductive period to climate change according to their species, habitat, location, level of disturbance etc
paul.cuchot[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Jérémy Defrance is a PhD student in evolutionary ecology at CEFE. His thesis aims at evaluating the role of ressources on reproductive traits in urban and non-urban great tits populations. He will use long-term datasets from populations of greats tits in Montpellier
jeremy.defrance[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Ségolène Delaitre: is a PhD student at CEFE in the Behavioural Ecology group. She is interested in understanding the role of environmental and social factors in behavioural and reproductive decisions in blue and great tit. She also studies mechanisms of mate choice in these species. She conducts experiments both in the field and in captivity.
segolene.delaitre[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Hélène Dion-Phénix is a PhD student at UQAM working in microbial ecology. Her thesis aims to determine the main determinants of microbiota variation in titmice. She is studying the importance of genetic, parent traits and environment on microbiota of blue tit chicks as well as the effect of microbiota on the condition of chicks using correlative and experimental approaches.
dion-phenix.helene[at]courrier.uqam.ca
Laurine Mathieu is a PhD student in Ecophysiology at CEFE (supervised by Samuel Caro and Anne Charmantier). Her thesis aims to determine whether organisms living in urban environments are pre-adapted to climate change because they have been exposed to the urban heat island effect. She will use the Great Tit species as a model to compare the physiological adaptations of forest and urban birds to temperature by assessing metabolic performance under different environmental conditions. Respiratory and physiological stress measurements will be conducted in the field and then in captivity using hand-reared birds to test whether the observed differences in the field are of plastic or genetic origin
laurine.mathieu[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Vaishnavi Purushotham: is a PhD student at CEFE (supervised by Céline Teplitsky, CEFE, and Erik Matthysen, University of Antwerp, Belgium) working on the multidimensional plasticity in the case of reproductive phenology in Passerines. She is exploring the extent to which multiple environmentall factors have an impact on plasticity, and how adaptive this plasticity is in tracking a fluctuating optimum. She will be using long-terl datasets from populations of Tit species from Montpellier and Belgium to address these questions.
vaishnavi.purushotam[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
Lisa Sandmeyer is a PhD at CEFE in evolutionary ecology. Her thesis aims to understand the evolution underlying the colouration signals under urban and non-urban environments. She will use long-term datasets from populations of great and blue tits in Montpellier.
lisa.sandmeyer[at]cefe.cnrs.fr
​Megan Thompson is a PhD student at CEFE and UQAM working in Urban Ecology and Evolution. Her thesis aims to disentangle the mechanisms that underlie phenotypic divergences between urban and non-urban populations. Megan will use long-term datasets on urban tit species across Europe and experimental approaches with urban great tits in Montpellier to address her aims.
thompsonjoymegan[at]gmail.com
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